Haha... hadn't seen that Michael had already done all of that. Abstract is exactly what I meant. Danke Michael ;-)
Delphine On 1/15/06, Delphine Ménard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Michael Bimmler schrieb: > > > > I absolutely agree here, what needs to be considered however is the > > > > following: > > > > If we have discussions about formal/legal things (e.g. about the form of > > > > the foundation), it gets awfully difficult to translate these terms into > > > > English. But we should certainly try to write as much as possible in > > > > English from now on. If someone didn't understand one particular > > > > > > I do agree for the Homepage, but not for this mailinglist in general. > > > AFAIK there are just very few persons that understand english better > > > than german. All is it worth the effort? For me, I don't like the idea > > > that all of my mails in english are being archived. > > OK, changing the thread and answering awfully late. > > I think very good points have been made about the importance also to > allow everyone to express themselves in their preferred language, > without keeping people away because they don't speak one or the other > language. English has its advantages and its disadvantages, ie. there > might be people who > > How about trying to adopt, as much as possible, the following kind of > standards: > - ideally, every email should have a one line summary in all the other > official languages, when the sender is able to do that. (note the > ideally at the beginning of this sentence ;-) ) > -But if the "all languages" thing is not possible (which will be more > often the case), a one line summary in English, or even a translation > of the subject (and even better, in the subject line, with a little > [de]; [it] etc also to say which language(s) the mail is in) in > English, would be already very nice. > > The idea would be to allow people who are interested in a subject to > know what is being talked about, and to then go to a machine > translation to get the essence, and ask for a real translation if > they're really interested in the subject. More work for all of us, but > also maybe fairer for all of us? > > Best, > > Delphine > -- > ~notafish > -- ~notafish _______________________________________________ Wikimediach-l mailing list Wikimediach-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediach-l
